Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker about God

Adamson, D.

ISBN 10: 0333550366 / ISBN 13: 9780333550366

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 1994

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Blaise Pascal: Mathematician, Physicist and Thinker about God
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0333550366
• ISBN-13: 9780333550366
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

This chronological survey explores Pascal's (162362) achievement as mathematician, physicist and religious thinker; it also has a chapter on his life. His work on conic sections, the probability calculus, number theory, cycloid curves and hydrostatics is considered in detail. Analyses of the Provincial Letters and the Thoughts bring out the many distinctive features, thematicnn and technical, of each text. Pascal's lesser known works are also studied. There is a chapter on the Wager argument. A wide-ranging bibliography completes the book.

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DONALD ADAMSON